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She pouted “Oh … is it not?”

“Allowhimself undone … is confirmed no more”

“Oh, I like that I do so like that, then,” she declared

As Daffy was ushering everyone towards the duke’s coach, which waited just at the curbing, there was no ti the duke at her side had quite

~ Twenty-Five ~

ALMACK’S WAS FULL to overflowing The orchestra played sweetly froentlemen walked about, and many sported a toe on the dance floor with the season’s new debutantes

Gossipus and whispered about the latest ondit Conversation flowed, and Felicia, fascinated, gazed at everything onder and told her friend, “Becky, just look at that w

oman … over there Is she not the most beautiful creature you have ever seen?”

The duke, standing near Felicia, grinned oddly as she lifted her face to him and asked, “Do you know her?”

“Too well, I am afraid,” he answered truthfully

“Ah, she was your lover,” Felicia concluded “Did it end badly?”

“It ended and, for a woman who is not ready for that to happen,of such things” His eyes twinkled at her

“She has the heart of a tart, and for all her breeding will never be anything else,” Daffy stuck into the conversation

Felicia giggled “Who is she?”

“She is the Lady Amkirk She married a man thirty years her senior and makes no secret of her numerous affairs”